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Headline Stories
Kind of Activity:
Technology
Objective:
To understand how public perception can be altered by the way news is portrayed
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5.B, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4
Structure:
In pairs, students will visit Google News online and choose a highlighted news topic for which they will explore coverage. Students will write down the headlines for ten different articles from ten different news sources, all covering their chosen topic (Google News aggregates these). Each pair will prepare a presentation in which they discuss how the different headlines reveal information about the news story. Do some headlines have different...
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